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CARD BOARD BOX. No. 412,649. Patented Oct. 8, 1889.

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Fig-i5 W/ T/VESSES INVENTOR ATTORNEYS 1 M vided with a projecting rim, which is folded UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PETER JACOB MULLER, OF COLOGNE, GERMANY.

'CARD-BOARD BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 412,649, dated October 8, 1889. Application filedPehruary 8, 1889. Serial No. 299,194- (Modeh) Patentedin France August 21, 1888, No. 192,524-

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that 1, PETER JACOB MiiLLEE,

a subject of theEmperor of Germany, and

resident at Cologne, Germany, have invented new and useful Improvements in Card-Board i This invention has for its object to provide in itself, without any further means, a tightlyfolding box or packet for tea, sugar, bonbons, chocolate, snuff, and similar substances.

This box consists of a small case or packet of paper, pulp, stiff linen, or other suitable material, open at one end, which end is proover in the manner hereinafter described, for

the purpose of tightly closing the packet.

The accompanying drawings illustrate the invention, in which drawings- Figure 1 is a plan view of a box embodying my invention,looking at the open side or end. Fig. 2 is a similar view, showing the rim in the act of being creased and folded; Fig. 3 is a plan view of the same partly folded. Fig. A is a perspective view of the box with its rim unfolded. Fig. 5 is a top View of the package closed and with the last point in the act of being secured.

The projecting rim a b c d is of the same width as the open end of the case, and is fastened round about on the edges of the same. The rim is creased into four triangles t and four parallelograms p by thefold-lines A and B, running at an. angle of forty-five degrees from each corner of the box. These fo1dlines are pinched or folded, each corner in succession, partly from the inside on foldlines A, and partly from the outside on foldlines B.

In order to close the box or package, the rim is folded on the abovemientioned lines over to cover the aperture and yet leave four projecting points C, as seen in Fig. 3,whereby the hitherto-open side or end of the case is closed, and then the remaining standing corners 0, formed by the folding of the squares, are laid in succession, one overlapping the other, as indicated at 1 2 3 4, and the last one of them 1) is pushed under the first, (1,) whereby the complete closing is formed, as shown in Fig. 5.

It is by having the rim or b 0 cl surrounding the edges of the open side or end of the box that open slits are avoided and a complete close joint formed. Before the rims .are folded a small plate corresponding to the size of the box is laid on the contents.

Having thus described my invention and the manner of employing the same, whatI claim as my invention, and wish to have secured to me by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. A tightly-folding box or packet for tea, sugar, bonbons, chocolate, snulf, and similar substances, consisting of a case or packet of paper, pulp, stiff linen, or other material, open at one end, which end is provided with a continuous and undivided laterally-projecting rim, which is adapted to be folded over to completely close the box, substantially in the manner and for the purpose as described.

2. A packing-box of paper, stiff linen, or any other suitable material, provided at its open end with an uncut flat rim, which is folded over in two series of folds, the first serving to close the end, and the second series to hold the first firmly down,substantially as described and shown. 7

In testimony whereof Ihave signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

PETER JACOB MULLER.

Witnesses:

PETER JOSEPH HARTMANN, ADRIAN CARL lVIlLlLLER. 

